Pete Moore is a high school sports star turned aimless alcoholic car salesman. He is one of four friends who gains special abilities after rescuing Douglas Duddits Cavell!Pete Moore gained the ability to find a path to anything he might ever need to look for and once used it to help his friends find the missing girl Josie Rinkenhauer. In a bitterly ironic twist of fate, adulthood rendered him lost and swimming at the bottom of a bottle, even though he never lost that ability.When an alien invasion disrupts his friends' winter vacation reunion at Hole in the Wall , he and Henry are involved in a car accident, injuring Pete so much that he couldn't walk back to the cabin. He is left in charge of the woman they nearly ran over, who just so happens to be infected with an alien lifeform. Drunkenly, Pete is forced to fight for his life when the lifeform attacks him and he is left severely injured.When Mr Grey comes along in the form of friend Gary Jones, he is forced to show Mr Grey the way to the Quabbin Reservoir where he will unleash another lifeform to infect the world's water supply. Pete, knowing that he is infected and dying anyway, decides to take one for the team and refuse to help Mr Grey...